Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steamship, especially one used on rivers and other inland waterways.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel propelled by steam-power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
boat orvessel propelled bysteam power .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boat propelled by a steam engine
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Examples
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The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats; steamship generally refers to larger steam-powered ships, usually ocean-going, capable of carrying a (ship's) boat.
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He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.
Love of Life and Other Stories Jack London 1896
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The steamboat is claimed as the “exclusive” discovery of Fulton, Jouffroy, Rumsey, Stevens and Symmington.
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Silverheaded; but, to my great relief, it turned out that the steamboat is not running.
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White aw black aw octoroom free niggeh, Phyllis gwine to choose de old Hayle home and de great riveh -- full o 'steamboat' -- sooneh'n any lan 'whah de ain't mo'n one 'oman to de mile.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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Now the steamboat is a paddlewheel-sporting boutique hotel permanently moored at Coolidge Park Landing in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn.
Anchored, Away 2012
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This steamboat, which is called the Burlington, is a perfectly exquisite achievement of neatness, elegance, and order.
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If the river was, as T. S. Eliot later wrote, “a strong brown god,” the steamboat was the godhead.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The steamboat was the first man-made apparatus to radically interrupt the arcadian wilderness, collapse vast distance, and discharge the artifacts of distant cultures into remote places.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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If the river was, as T. S. Eliot later wrote, “a strong brown god,” the steamboat was the godhead.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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